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Learning Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- among the values of classical learning I estimate the Luxury of reading the Greek & Roman authors in all the beauties of their originals ...…
- I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into…
- The Gothic idea that we were to look backwards instead of forwards for the improvement of the human mind, and to recur to the annals…
- Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to…
- He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more…
- Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.
- Health is worth more than learning.
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